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Colletta, John Philip, “Developing Family Narrative from Leads in Sources: The Case of James W. and Nancy Parberry,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 94 (March 2006), 23–37.

Eagleson, Pamela S., “The Art, Trade, and Mystery of a Mariner: Captain William Greenway of Philadelphia, Mariner and Patriot,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 92 (Dec. 2004), 285–300.

Guinnane, Timothy W., Carolyn M. Moehling, and Cormac Ó. Gráda, “The Fertility of the Irish in the United States in 1910,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (July 2006), 465–85.

Hatton, Stephan B., “Determining Children from Underused Sources: Jacob and Catherine Fought of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 93 (March 2005), 38–57.

Hoagland, Robert E., “Identifying John Tapper, a German Immigrant Laborer in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, through the Records of His Children,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 92 (March 2004), 165–77.

Logan, Trevon D., “Food, Nutrition, and Substitution in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (July 2006), 527–45.

Main, Gloria L., “Rocking the Cradle: Downsizing the New England Family,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 37 (Summer 2006), 35–58.

Martin, David Kendall, “Untangling the Ancestry of Samuel Allen of Summit, Schoharie County, New York: A Lesson in Principles,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 92 (March 2004), 31–50.

Shawker, Thomas H., “Genetic Genealogy: Issues and Considerations,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 93 (Dec. 2005), 294–307.

Stephan, Scott M., “Reconsidering the Boundaries of Maternal Authority in the Evangelical Household: The Davis Family of Antebellum Murfreesboro,” North Carolina Historical Review, 83 (April 2006), 165–92.

 

Backes, Matthew W., “The Father and the Middle Class: Paternal Authority, Filial Independence, and the Transformation of American Culture, 1800–1850” (Columbia University, 2005). Order No. DA3188711.

Hunt, Judith Lee, “Beyond the Power of Fortune: The Middleton Family, 1784 to 1877” (University of Florida, 2005). Order No. DA3188081.

 

Kenschaft, Lori, Reinventing Marriage: The Love and Work of Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. 279 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-252-03000-1.)

 

Dickson, Betty Edwards, “Pink Things: A Memoir of the Edwards Family of Harrodsburg,” Kentucky Ancestors, 41 (Winter 2005), 77–94.

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